I just rejoined after the longest hiatus. Was entirely too active here 1999 to 2014. How are all you lovely people? I'm catching on fast that everyone posts as Anonymous now, but outing myself as Torta just for this re-entry greeting. Any other longtimers still on here? Do the names Bonnie Mace, White Belt Man, SS Terri and David Ehrenstein (an actual person) hold any memory for you? And are we talking about this dismal 2024 Election situation or just mostly ignoring it? And anything else I'd be wise to know before slinging it as another Anonymous... what does and doesn't get a person banned these days?
Hey Datalounge, it's been a decade!
by Anonymous | reply 195 | July 28, 2024 8:44 AM |
Hi Torta! I was still a long time lurker when you left, but welcome back.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 15, 2024 11:12 AM |
I vaguely recall your name, yes, I can't believe you're still alive. Those others you mentioned are for sure dead, though.
[quote]And are we talking about this dismal 2024 Election situation or just mostly ignoring it?
We are very much talking about it, just look at the bloodbath in every Trump/Biden thread to get the gist.
[quote]what does and doesn't get a person banned these days?
Don't be too outwardly MAGA and racist, and you should be fine. Some other... irregular behaviour as well, you'll know it when you see it.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 15, 2024 11:14 AM |
I don’t know why you’re frightened. You know your way around here. 😊
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 15, 2024 11:16 AM |
David Ehrenstein is still alive, R2.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 15, 2024 11:21 AM |
Thanks all. So many memories coming to mind... like, there was the most persistent troll the entire 15 years I was here, named Catherine of Siena and other handles. In this troll's mental universe all women were "fish" and gay men were "ladies". It was the tenacity and character-integrity of this troll that impressed me, horrid and tiresome as she* was (*using her own preferred pronouns, lol). Did she finally at long last slither away?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 15, 2024 11:26 AM |
If Catherine of Siena was Mrs Patrick Campbell aka Erna, yes, she slithered away.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 15, 2024 11:28 AM |
welcome back!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 15, 2024 11:41 AM |
They drummed you right outta Hollywood.. so you come crawling back to Broadway…
Tory’s, do you remember MizezSlocombe? Like heroes, she showed up, outta the blue, this week. And true to her (obese) form, she remains both rancid and vile.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 15, 2024 12:08 PM |
Torta, welcome back!
If you happen to see Price Leatherbarrow, Kipper, Magdalene, or Blue Agave, can you ask them to rejoin us, too?
Sadly, you won’t be hearing from CackleCackle or Judy “Pills” Garland…
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 15, 2024 12:10 PM |
Oh wow, those names. It's been forever. I imagine Slappy the troll with the fetish for getting humiliatingly face-slapped in public, is gone too.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 15, 2024 12:20 PM |
People discuss soap operas now, but it's not so terrible as I think there are only two left.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 15, 2024 12:22 PM |
Torta, do you remember right winger Peg, famous (infamous) for her drive-by postings.
She'd always post some provocative right wing/neofascist/Republican talking point, riling everyone up, but never, ever respond to anyone. I think she eventually got red tagged.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 15, 2024 12:59 PM |
Torta! That's a name I've not heard in a long time. It's great to see you!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 15, 2024 1:07 PM |
R12, omg Peg. I'd completely blanked her outta my brain until this moment. And Dick Fitz the braying domineering Libertarian troll circa 2003. This is low-key fascinating, like reactivating an electrical circuit.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 15, 2024 1:15 PM |
I remember you and, yes, all the other handles mentioned. Those were the best of DL. It's a shell of its former self. Most of the authenticateds are dull/annoying/sociopathic now.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 15, 2024 2:01 PM |
[quote]Most of the authenticateds are dull/annoying/sociopathic now.
Authenticated posters have always been a target for trolls. It's no wonder we're almost all anonymous.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 15, 2024 2:03 PM |
Yeah, I actually got the urge to come back here because of the upsides of the anonymous feature, and will probably follow the cultural norm and stay Anon after this thread. I've missed the freedom to just sass off about something without detractors dredging up your past comments and going after you personally.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 15, 2024 2:14 PM |
Welcome back. Note that the “Ignore” feature also allows someone to track your posting history even if you aren’t authenticating, so be aware.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 15, 2024 2:19 PM |
Ohhh good to know R18. That whole Ignore/Ignored feature is new to me (vs. 2014). Guess it cuts both ways, you can see if some rando is a prolific poster or not, whenever you want to.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 15, 2024 2:35 PM |
Welcome back, OP!
Any interesting informatia to share with us about your extended absatia?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 15, 2024 2:53 PM |
We are a married gay dad now R20! Parenting while middle-aging is a combo of inspiratia/exhaustia.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 15, 2024 2:59 PM |
Welcome back Torta. I wish more folks from DL’s glory days would return.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 15, 2024 3:01 PM |
Boy did you pick a bad time to come back. This isn’t Kansas anymore—the humor is almost completely gone.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 15, 2024 3:03 PM |
R16 the authenticated ones ARE the trolls at this point.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 15, 2024 3:04 PM |
Torta? Like a fucking sandwich? I smell another troll emerging.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 15, 2024 3:11 PM |
I have only been here for a few months because of alleged closeted info of my celeb crush Christian Evans *rubbing transclit in anticipation of male ond male action rumors".
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 15, 2024 3:14 PM |
More delusional posters than ever with less panache. Facts don't matter to these loons. Perhaps even your family and friends believe all kinds of baseless absurd nonsense: Trump is still POTUS,Moon landing was faked, Earth is flat, Nicholas Galitzine is heterosexual.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 15, 2024 3:37 PM |
Congrats on fatherhood, Torta! Hope you and your little tortilla are doing fantastico!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 15, 2024 3:37 PM |
Aw thanks R29.
Another question -- so, W&W, I rejoined DL early this morning after a 9-10 year hiatus and was able to reclaim "Torta" and to post instantly, but it seems I cannot confer W&W on anyone else's comments. Does that come a bit later, after you earn more site trust or something?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 15, 2024 3:50 PM |
Well since you can create a post and comment, you should be able to W&W.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 15, 2024 5:18 PM |
R31 I just clicked W&W on your comment and it faded out along with F&F next to it, does that mean I did it? Pardon my coming across like a tech-addled newbie.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 15, 2024 5:24 PM |
Erna/Mrs Patrick Campbell/Catheriene of Siena apparently died.
David E.'s meltdown were always entertaining.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 15, 2024 5:25 PM |
R32 yes.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 15, 2024 5:26 PM |
Refresh the page and you’ll see the updated number of WWs.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 15, 2024 5:39 PM |
I feel refreshed
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 16, 2024 3:55 AM |
Torta = Greg02116
by Anonymous | reply 37 | June 16, 2024 4:00 AM |
where is Josh for this reunion?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 16, 2024 4:04 AM |
I was molested
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 16, 2024 6:57 AM |
[quote]Do the names Bonnie Mace, White Belt Man, SS Terri and David Ehrenstein (an actual person) hold any memory for you?
Ten years ago some/most of those names were already long disappeared, no?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 16, 2024 8:48 AM |
Oh wow.
I remember you well.
I miss the old days.
AYB, Butchie, Price, Kirker, even the insane School Marm troll.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 16, 2024 8:57 AM |
[quote]Erna/Mrs Patrick Campbell/Catheriene of Siena apparently died.
No, she didn't. You bitches are so naive! She pops in here occasionally and posts on Instagram too.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 16, 2024 10:00 AM |
Torta - wow, now that's a positive name from the DL past I didn't think I'd ever see again.
You said you left in 2004 and I think that was around the time it got especially nasty around here and a lot of us (including me) stopped "authenticating." I think it was around the time I once referred to as the WBM Riots.
[quote]Torta = Greg02116
I'd find that hard to believe.
[quote]This isn’t Kansas anymore—the humor is almost completely gone.
I've been since around '98 and I think there's still some laughs to be had around this old dump, although you gotta wade through a lot of stupid to get to it.
Don't go completely anonymous, Torta. You might find as I do that some threads are relatively safe from crazies.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 16, 2024 10:42 AM |
Hi R43, thanks! I actually stuck around here well into the Obama years, and left around 2013-2014. No strong reason, just the site got overhauled into this, and I initially found it alienating and had unusual life stress going on at the same time.
Yeah I'm not "Greg02116" though I have a Boston past and recognize that zip as Back Bay.
I remember the WBM riots very well. I liked that guy's friendly questionnaires in here, but racism is racism and I was sad to see "trolldar" eventually light up White Belt Man in the ways that it did.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 16, 2024 11:20 AM |
You might find some views have diverged from 00s-10s norms. For better and worse.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | June 16, 2024 11:20 AM |
Finally made parole didja?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 16, 2024 11:49 AM |
I’m happy to hear of the olden days
by Anonymous | reply 47 | June 16, 2024 12:32 PM |
I do wish we still had trolldar; it was so simple.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 16, 2024 5:06 PM |
r38 r41 r42 r43 r44 r45 r46 r47
r48, Ignor-dar works just as well.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | June 16, 2024 5:09 PM |
R49, are you saying all those posts (besides R48) are the same poster?
Because I am one of those posters and only one of them.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | June 16, 2024 5:29 PM |
R50
by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 16, 2024 5:42 PM |
Erna didn't die but we had a good long laugh thinking she did.
Don't mention Ehrenstein's name three times fast or he just might appear......
by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 16, 2024 5:47 PM |
OP is a MAGA RUSSIAN TROLL! Are you working for that plastic pint of vodka, OP? Or should I say Boris????
Welcome back. ^ A preview of what will come if you step outside the woke hivemind agenda.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 16, 2024 5:47 PM |
Why were you gone so long? No one can be that busy with work, kids, etc. to be gone 10 years.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | June 16, 2024 5:49 PM |
Since you've been gone.....
We have a lot of weird posters now. Lots of posters with an agenda (see: the Condi and or Nikki Haley troll). Some accuse everyone of being Boris as R53 points out....but then, you also have R53 complaining about "woke" things.
There are some intense fan communities that it may be best to just steer clear of......their posters are, shall we say, passionate.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 16, 2024 5:51 PM |
Prison?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | June 16, 2024 5:52 PM |
Mr. Torta who was the Froy of your day?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | June 16, 2024 5:55 PM |
R53 is the anti trans troll
by Anonymous | reply 58 | June 16, 2024 6:03 PM |
I guess you'll be fine if you like Heartstopper threads...
by Anonymous | reply 59 | June 16, 2024 6:11 PM |
R58 is the SCAT troll
by Anonymous | reply 60 | June 16, 2024 6:20 PM |
R53 r54 r56 r59 r60
by Anonymous | reply 61 | June 16, 2024 6:43 PM |
Wow Torta thanks for letting us know. I've been here on and off for a long time and remember every single one of the handles of those major DL posters mentioned in this thread.
For some reason all of this made me look up the price of gas in Half Moon Bay.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | June 16, 2024 6:46 PM |
Aw R62. Mr Cackle Cackle of blessed memory.
R57, believe it or not.. Matt & Ben were the hot young cute gossip item when I first landed here in late '98/early '99. Tail end of the Clinton administration! Then a couple years later the LOTR boys were the subject of way too much chatter.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | June 16, 2024 6:55 PM |
The “prancing pony” era was when I came on the scene here. It was riven with trolls from both sides
by Anonymous | reply 64 | June 16, 2024 7:00 PM |
R63 r64
by Anonymous | reply 65 | June 16, 2024 7:03 PM |
The other new thing on the DL lately is when you have annoyingly nellie prisspots like R61 / R65 who wants to block everyone but then does the shit she does in those posts because her sad, fat ass just HAS to see what other people said.
Either unblock everyone or fuck off, Mary.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | June 16, 2024 7:22 PM |
David Ehrenstein was such a cunt. God forbid you weren't familiar with some 1940s starlet or some obscure French art house movie from the 1960s. He would rant and rave that we were all cultural illiterates and a disgrace to gay men everywhere. He would just go on and on, post after post. Fucking raging cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | June 16, 2024 7:39 PM |
WHET to Shinjuku Baby?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | June 16, 2024 7:44 PM |
I do not understand the thing that R61 / R65 is doing, but it's a treat to see so many longtimers still here.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | June 16, 2024 7:46 PM |
R66 r68 r69 r70
by Anonymous | reply 71 | June 16, 2024 7:51 PM |
EDITOR!
Freaks & Flames Torta - PRONTO!
by Anonymous | reply 72 | June 16, 2024 7:52 PM |
r71 (see I can do that too. Nah nah nah nah nah nah.)
by Anonymous | reply 73 | June 16, 2024 7:52 PM |
[quote]there was the most persistent troll the entire 15 years I was here, named Catherine of Siena and other handles. In this troll's mental universe all women were "fish" and gay men were "ladies".
Ah yes, the many lives of Erna.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | June 16, 2024 8:12 PM |
Torta, I arrived right when you left. Hello!
We had a rightwing troll start posting here about a year after I started. At first he was in lawn signs troll, claiming that in his part of Pennsyltucky all he saw were Trump lawn signs.
Soon he switched over to full blown Fox/Breitbart trollery using the screen name Defacto, and several variations of that afterward. Hes baldly racist and anti-coastal liberal, so he still floods the board with links to stories of black crime or crime in nyc or LA.
He typically does this on anon. However he slipped up a few years ago and revealed his Twitter (ciocolatto bianco — white chocolate, hurr hurr) and we discovered his name is Matt and he’s from Pittsburgh. And he’s ugly.
So when you see posts like that, you’ll know it’s a Defacto troll thread. Tbh as annoying as Mrs. PC was, I’ll take her any day over Defacto.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | June 16, 2024 8:31 PM |
Go jump in a lake
by Anonymous | reply 76 | June 16, 2024 8:38 PM |
We also can’t say the name of the site matchmaker of blessed cartoon memory anymore since that’s the feminized name of a guy from Brooklyn who was doxxing people on the site.
But as you can see the format hasn’t changed much in the past decade.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | June 16, 2024 8:46 PM |
[Quote] Go jump in a lake
If the shoe fits
by Anonymous | reply 78 | June 16, 2024 9:26 PM |
If it wasn’t clear earlier—Torta is shite. The continued feigned ignorance about how DL works these days is utterly disingenuous.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | June 16, 2024 11:19 PM |
R72, I just KNEW peg was lurking somewhere!
by Anonymous | reply 81 | June 17, 2024 12:19 AM |
my subscription was up as well and I rejoined but I wasn't given the option of paying for 1 whole year which is what I've always done, I was only given the option of paying every month 1.99.
so weird.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | June 19, 2024 3:32 PM |
What if you rejoin before it expires?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | June 19, 2024 5:04 PM |
Torta is a culinary term that can, depending on the cuisine, refer to cakes, pies, flatbreads, sandwiches, or omelettes.
Or - depending on the date, time of day, menstrual cycle and/or moon phase - caterers.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | June 19, 2024 5:20 PM |
R84, all true... I was nicknamed "Torta" in real life way back in the mid '90s by a few Brazilian friends, as the feminine for the adjective "bent/twisted" in their language. That's what I got after I thanked them for not calling me Puta or Bicha like they did with each other.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | June 19, 2024 8:15 PM |
R85
by Anonymous | reply 86 | June 20, 2024 11:30 AM |
I love a good torte
by Anonymous | reply 87 | June 20, 2024 12:01 PM |
Why does it seem like there are so many trolls lately that are always mentioning Boston or Brazil?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | June 20, 2024 2:19 PM |
Because they like the letter “B”?
by Anonymous | reply 89 | June 20, 2024 4:09 PM |
Or prunes.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | June 20, 2024 5:19 PM |
[quote]mentioning Boston or Brazil
Oh God, I was wondering what happened to Glenn Greenwald just this morning.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | June 21, 2024 2:27 AM |
R9: "If you happen to see Price Leatherbarrow, Kipper, Magdalene, or Blue Agave, can you ask them to rejoin us, too?"
Price died suddenly on 6/27, apparently of a heart attack. Not sure if I should start a thread for the old-timers. This makes me very sad. He was the sweetest man, and his poor family members, friends, and pets...
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 24, 2024 10:37 PM |
Linky stinky r92
by Anonymous | reply 93 | July 24, 2024 11:00 PM |
He-- or his female relative who posted on his page-- must have his or her or both Facebook pages set to friends only, R93. I tried looking for an obituary; no luck. The Datalounge Facebook page posted about it, too. That's how I found out.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 24, 2024 11:16 PM |
Nevah hoid uh yuh!
Don't let da door hit yuh in da butt on yer way in, Thang.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | July 24, 2024 11:21 PM |
It’s much easier to get banned now. Datalounge has become a lot tamer. People are more easily offended
by Anonymous | reply 96 | July 24, 2024 11:33 PM |
Welcome back, Torta!
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 24, 2024 11:52 PM |
Be wary of long lost people checking in, they are usually up to no good, Torta sounds straight and white and cuntish
by Anonymous | reply 98 | July 24, 2024 11:58 PM |
David Ehrenstein was never a real person.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | July 25, 2024 12:10 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 25, 2024 12:18 AM |
R100 That Wikipedia page a farcical reprint of a Onion article.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | July 25, 2024 12:21 AM |
He was both real and often fabulous, if by fabulous you mean often posting while completely drunk.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | July 25, 2024 12:23 AM |
Welcome back, Torta!
by Anonymous | reply 103 | July 25, 2024 12:27 AM |
Why are GoFundMe so stupid?
by Anonymous | reply 104 | July 25, 2024 12:27 AM |
My pussy still stinks.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | July 25, 2024 12:41 AM |
[quote]Do the names Bonnie Mace, White Belt Man, SS Terri and David Ehrenstein (an actual person) hold any memory for you?
But of course, Torta. And Mrs. Slocombe. And Catherine of Siena / Mrs Patrick Campbell. And josh. And Judy "Pills" Garland. And Price (RIP), Kipper, Magdalene, Blue Agave, and scores of other DataLoungers as well as ASG refugees both anon & authenticunted.
[quote]David Ehrenstein was never a real person.
He's a real person, snookums. TTFN.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | July 25, 2024 12:42 AM |
I’m still here, gently chiding the lax parenting of insolent little brats.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | July 25, 2024 12:42 AM |
The Magdalene
by Anonymous | reply 108 | July 25, 2024 12:50 AM |
What happened to Price Leatherbarrow?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | July 25, 2024 1:46 AM |
Oh for fucking crying out loud, now Kirker is back?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | July 25, 2024 2:01 AM |
Erna died?!
by Anonymous | reply 111 | July 25, 2024 2:10 AM |
What about the woman who had tons of golden age hollywood gossip? Someone must remember her. SUsieLee?
by Anonymous | reply 112 | July 25, 2024 2:16 AM |
Oh shit kirker isn’t dead:,Welcome back you old rich bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | July 25, 2024 2:33 AM |
Price had a heart attack, according to the Facebook page. He was a sweetheart.
I’d love to know if Judy Pills and Justin are alive or roommates in an asylum.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | July 25, 2024 2:36 AM |
Hi Torta,
I remember you, at least your name. I was around back then.
Dustin here.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | July 25, 2024 2:39 AM |
Welcome back, Torta, I remember you. My avatar was "getting too old for this shit" back then.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | July 25, 2024 2:43 AM |
Mizez Slocombe sucked lesbian donkey ass. He was an ASSHOLE.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | July 25, 2024 2:48 AM |
Slocunt was such a pretentious twat. But amusing.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | July 25, 2024 2:50 AM |
It was NEVER “amusing”. Seriously.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | July 25, 2024 2:54 AM |
Well maybe Slocunt wasn’t amusing, but the nastiness from everyone else towards that asshole was.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | July 25, 2024 2:57 AM |
Hi! I'm Kelt.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | July 25, 2024 3:54 AM |
Welcome back Torta! I think we should celebrate with Friday afternoon drinkiepoos.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | July 25, 2024 3:57 AM |
Where's retarded /jsoh/?
by Anonymous | reply 123 | July 25, 2024 3:59 AM |
I'm usually anonymous, and I'm only signing this post now out of respect for dear, sweet Price. He was such a lovely soul who shared his move from Nebraska and building his life in Kansas City cutting hair with us, so it's really sad.to learn he's gone.
Came back last August myself after I stopped visiting around 2010-2011. Slocombe was taken, have the Slocumbe spelling.
I'm happily back in Europe, and this is maybe the third time I've signed a post since returning to DL. I'm extremely private now, so that's all I'll say. I am mortified at the amount of personal information I shared here in my early 20's, and am extremely grateful that most of it isn't available. It's a luxury to not have that live forever. I was really naive about what people can do with personally identifiable information then, as were many of us.
It's a bit bizarre to see grudges held for14+ years. I suppose you're welcome to it if you want to engage with that version of me, but it looks like 99% of us have moved on. It's been an interesting exercise to experience how much I've grown and changed as I aged by returning here.
Anyway, welcome back Torta. It's definitely not what it was, but so are we and so is the internet.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | July 25, 2024 4:03 AM |
That's me above.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | July 25, 2024 4:03 AM |
R92 Your link is also no longer with us.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | July 25, 2024 12:47 PM |
R92 I see that's already been addressed. Sorry.
One thing I notice is that I used to laugh out loud at some of the post on DL, especially in old movie threads, The rejoinders were very funny and unexpected. Now, not so much. At least to me.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | July 25, 2024 12:50 PM |
I miss umpy.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | July 25, 2024 12:53 PM |
[quote]I am mortified at the amount of personal information I shared here in my early 20's, and am extremely grateful that most of it isn't available. It's a luxury to not have that live forever. I was really naive about what people can do with personally identifiable information then, as were many of us.
Same. I still can't believe I was stupid enough to write a blog that was publicly accessible.
I'm on here occasionally nowadays, and always anon given my past experiences, but a lot of the time it seems like there's no policing of the extreme fandom or even soap opera threads that grow to ridiculous lengths. I'm also entirely burned out on political conversations in general, and also feel a bit queasy seeing so many threads openly siding with GOP interests (e.g. lazy arguments favoring Israel over Palestine - and yes, I get that Israel is gay-friendly and Muslim countries are not).
I'm still Facebook friends with quite a few DLers (and ASG alumni), both authenticated & anon, and even now I remember the big in-person get-together in NYC circa 2005 or 2006. Still, the level of toxicity on DL, even if not aimed at me personally, seems to have gotten considerably worse, though that's true in society in general. The number of asshole posters who dismiss anyone who doesn't agree with them as being a "frau" or something similarly silly has gotten out of hand, though I know frauen are still one of DL's favorite all-around scapegoats.
Finally, I'm baffled what the fuck is up with the site's functionality, though I gather these are all known issues: broken search function, "become a contributor!" pop-ups even if you are an contributor, etc. I'm glad troll-banning & redtags are back, but I truly don't get how a specific thread ends up as such: does the Webmaster do it manually, or has he written scripts to auto-ban certain people or threads? (I gather that links to the Daily Fail generate automated bans.)
Not really related to anything above, but it still blows my mind that this site is turning 30 next year! (Should we plan a party or something?)
by Anonymous | reply 129 | July 25, 2024 6:26 PM |
I want to hear more about this NYC DL meet-up….
by Anonymous | reply 130 | July 25, 2024 6:41 PM |
Muriel hates meta-discussion these days, so don't expect this thread to last long.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | July 25, 2024 6:42 PM |
Oh, wow, Torta--chile, it's been too damn long!
by Anonymous | reply 132 | July 25, 2024 6:43 PM |
R130, it wasn't like some sort of blowout event of some sort. It was simply a group of NYC-based DLers getting together for drinks at an East Village gay bar. (IIRC it was, or is, on 14th St. - it might've been Nowhere, meaning the bar's name.) We had a mix of authenticated posters and anon members, and I think maybe nine or ten showed up?
There were a few other get-togethers, including at least one after I'd moved out of NYC, but that one was the most memorable.
R131, that's actually one of the things I don't get: how did the Webmaster get nicknamed Muriel, of all things? Has Cheryl (and her stinky pussy) finally fled the premises?
by Anonymous | reply 133 | July 25, 2024 8:24 PM |
[quote] Muriel hates meta-discussion these days, so don't expect this thread to last long.
No boards on boards!
by Anonymous | reply 134 | July 25, 2024 8:33 PM |
R129 = Frau
by Anonymous | reply 135 | July 25, 2024 8:34 PM |
[quote]g. lazy arguments favoring Israel over Palestine
You're still an idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | July 25, 2024 10:54 PM |
are you guys able to pay once a year or is it only monthly now? I tried to renew but wasn't given the option to pay 12 months at once.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | July 25, 2024 11:10 PM |
You should get the option to either monthly or annually.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | July 25, 2024 11:11 PM |
I wasn't given that option, sucks!
by Anonymous | reply 139 | July 25, 2024 11:16 PM |
R133 There was a thread probably six or seven years ago, I don’t really recall the topic. It must have been something meta about Datalounge itself because the Webmaster himself posted in it several times under an authenticated u/n — notably to say that he hates being referred to as “webby”/“webbie”, which was the prevailing nickname at the time. He said something to the effect of “You can call me Muriel for all I care, just please stop saying webby”.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | July 25, 2024 11:58 PM |
I remember you and all the people you mentioned.
Dunno if you'd remember me as "OutInTexas" as I didn't actually publicly post much under that handle, but I did enough for a while, back in the days of White Belt Man, Dallas, and Ft Worth.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | July 26, 2024 12:03 AM |
It is The Editor!
by Anonymous | reply 142 | July 26, 2024 12:04 AM |
It is The Editor!
by Anonymous | reply 143 | July 26, 2024 12:04 AM |
I vaguely remember having a crush on Dustin, actually.
Unrequited obviously.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | July 26, 2024 12:17 AM |
Kirker was a subject of much ridicule here. An airhead dilettante living in NYC on Daddy's money. He was insufferable.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | July 26, 2024 12:18 AM |
I feel like Mrs Betty Bowers, America's BEST Christian got her start here... she hasn't been here in ages, but she's still doing gang-busters with her own site and all over Twitter.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | July 26, 2024 12:33 AM |
Webbie wounds I believe.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | July 26, 2024 12:50 AM |
[quote]Webbie wounds
I got my red wings from Webbie!
by Anonymous | reply 148 | July 26, 2024 6:07 AM |
[quote]Mizez Slocombe sucked lesbian donkey ass. He was an ASSHOLE.
Slocombe is still here, lurking anonymously. She came out and authenticated a few times a couple months back. She seems much less self assured than she used to be. Which is good because she used to think way too highly of herself.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | July 26, 2024 6:10 AM |
[quote]Kirker was a subject of much ridicule here. An airhead dilettante living in NYC on Daddy's money. He was insufferable.
But he is a UVA grad, which is all that really matters, even to this day.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | July 26, 2024 6:11 AM |
[quote] But he is a UVA grad, which is all that really matters, even to this day.
It’s not a charm school.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | July 26, 2024 6:14 AM |
[quote] Slocombe is still here, lurking anonymously.
Yes, R149, and also at R124 and R125.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | July 26, 2024 6:15 AM |
This thread is probably going to turn into an epitaph because I have a strong feeling that Datalounge is living its last days.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | July 26, 2024 6:21 AM |
This isn't some big reveal. I wrote that I post anonymously in this and the other few times I've signed my posts.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | July 26, 2024 6:21 AM |
Sorry, I hadn't seen that post when I posted at R149.
I read threads from the bottom up, for some reason. Does anyone else do that?
by Anonymous | reply 155 | July 26, 2024 6:23 AM |
[quote] I read threads from the bottom up, for some reason. Does anyone else do that?
No we’re not Mooslems!
by Anonymous | reply 156 | July 26, 2024 6:26 AM |
Hey Kirker, Mizez Slo, and OutInTexas! Hope life is being good, or at least decent, to each of you.
I am so sorry to hear of Price Leatherbarrow’s death.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | July 26, 2024 12:19 PM |
[quote]This thread is probably going to turn into an epitaph because I have a strong feeling that Datalounge is living its last days.
Sad last days!
by Anonymous | reply 158 | July 26, 2024 12:25 PM |
Torta, our current industrious trolls have multiple cosplay identities, sometimes similar but sometimes totally contrasting, and they also use sock puppets to post anonymously. They talk to themselves. Nothing they say and none of their activities on DL are amusing in the slightest. It's all mental illness on annoying display.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | July 26, 2024 1:05 PM |
Does anyone know whether homeless, dick-pic-posting Brandon ever found a home? I think he was hoping to hit the big time selling Kirby vacuums.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | July 26, 2024 1:50 PM |
Lmao at R159,
by Anonymous | reply 161 | July 26, 2024 1:53 PM |
R159, yeah that became clear to me after a few days. Can’t exactly tell such people to get a hobby, they’ve found one.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | July 26, 2024 2:03 PM |
I wish Lee Anne Devette was around. That evil cunt would have vaporized these the third rate trolls lurking on here.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | July 26, 2024 2:23 PM |
Fools.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | July 26, 2024 5:07 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 165 | July 26, 2024 5:56 PM |
The incessant attacks on authenticated posters drove them away and ruined the site. I still love it here, but it was so amazing before.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | July 26, 2024 6:37 PM |
More like “Authcunticated” amirite?!
by Anonymous | reply 167 | July 26, 2024 6:42 PM |
Remember when someone claimed Kirker clogged up a toilet at a party and that followed him around for years?
by Anonymous | reply 168 | July 26, 2024 6:49 PM |
LeeAnneDevette was the poor man’s MizezSlocombe. And MizezSlocombe wasn’t even a thing.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | July 27, 2024 2:45 AM |
Did fucking kirker post upthread??
Holy fuck. It's like 2007 all over again.
Where's Butchy???
by Anonymous | reply 170 | July 27, 2024 2:56 AM |
R144, I DEFINITELY had a crush on Dustin. He seemed so alpha and daddy back then. Very much what I was into in the early to mid 00s when I was in my early 20s.
I never authenticated, but I've been here since 2003 or so. Know all the names being bandied about. I remember Kirker's blog. And josh's blog. (Fuck, I forget how many people had fucking blogs back then!) All that shit. And poor Price. I remember when he was in beauty school or something like that. What a funny dude he was.
I am not one to say DL was oh-so-better back then (though it was) as I still get a ton of enjoyment from the site now. Still, it's crazy to think how we've all grown up together in a weird, internet way.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | July 27, 2024 3:08 AM |
The Price helmet story was truly laugh out loud funny. All the more fun that he enjoyed being the butt of the joke.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | July 27, 2024 3:20 AM |
Thanks, R144 and R171. I'm very flattered. I've actually been here since 1997 (I think). I was mostly a lurker, but I was one of the first posters on the original 9/11 thread. However, I didn't post it was an insatiable bottom. I wasn't "Dustin" until 2004 or 2005.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | July 27, 2024 4:12 AM |
R173 weren't you in some god awful relationship? Full of drama and intrigue and fighting and Dynasty bitch slaps? I think I used to imagine I'd come save you from that hellfire twink and then you'd marry me (well, domestic partner me) and we'd live happily ever after.
(Remember, I was 23 or 24. Forgive me!)
by Anonymous | reply 174 | July 27, 2024 5:05 AM |
I don't think Dustin Dewind is this Dustin.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | July 27, 2024 5:14 AM |
[quote]I wasn't "Dustin" until 2004 or 2005.
What happened in 2004? Did you trans from Dustine?
by Anonymous | reply 176 | July 27, 2024 5:21 AM |
Oh god R175. Am I remembering the wrong Dustin? That would be very much a me thing to do.
If so, I guess I didn't have a crush on you Dustin. Sorry. But I am sure you are very crush worthy!
by Anonymous | reply 177 | July 27, 2024 5:38 AM |
Hi Torta!!!!
I registered just to say, I think you should be publicly recognized for your mind bogglingly exceptional work during Hurricane Katrina.
All of the updates about the hurricane's movement, the conditions on the ground in New Orleans, and much much more.
You are a hero my friend.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | July 27, 2024 5:57 AM |
Torta is pretty hot if I remember correctly
by Anonymous | reply 179 | July 27, 2024 6:03 AM |
Oh for fucking crying out loud, no Datalounge poster is hot.
Except that one Amercian expat in Japan with the massive pecs and huge nipples. Who was that guy? Tall white guy, I think his screen name started with an S.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | July 27, 2024 9:26 AM |
Yeah that guy was hot. What was his fucking name? Shit.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | July 27, 2024 9:26 AM |
Shinjuku Baby?
by Anonymous | reply 182 | July 27, 2024 9:33 AM |
I was Dustin De Wind. I just shortened it to Dustin.
[quote]What happened in 2004? Did you trans from Dustine?
No, I transed from a married bi guy to a divorced gay man (though I am still kinda bi).
by Anonymous | reply 183 | July 27, 2024 8:31 PM |
Ha, like many of us, I was considerably hotter then than now. It turns out 56 is not the new 34, no matter what skin care regimen or workout routine you're into.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | July 27, 2024 8:36 PM |
ps. Hi Dustin, great to see you again! And Voice of the Night too.
Is Pope Buck still around? And whats his name from Kansas City (JohnEric or EricJohn?) And some of the ladyfolk like LeftIsRight or Lynn?
by Anonymous | reply 185 | July 27, 2024 8:39 PM |
Thanks, Torta. Back at ya!
Yes, it's good to see VOTN too.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | July 27, 2024 9:07 PM |
[quote]More like “Authcunticated” amirite?!
I believe the correct nom de troll is "authenticunted."
[quote]Remember when someone claimed Kirker clogged up a toilet at a party and that followed him around for years?
Only on DL, snookums. This was never anything more than a troll post.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | July 27, 2024 10:53 PM |
Kirker called me “snookums,” its like 2005 all over again.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | July 27, 2024 11:21 PM |
Kirker, are you still living off of Daddy's money?
by Anonymous | reply 189 | July 27, 2024 11:24 PM |
Remember when Prodigal from Ottawa got busted for emailing several DLers to trash kirker? I wonder if she's still here and posting shit like r189.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | July 28, 2024 5:25 AM |
Kirker was the subject of much snark years ago. He was smug and snobbish. And yes, living off of Daddy's money the whole time.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | July 28, 2024 5:29 AM |
It wasn't snark. It was obsessed stalking overkill. People just wouldn't let go, and still won't decades later. That's some serious pathology and projection.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | July 28, 2024 5:36 AM |
Moving to more...erm...creamy topics, here's a thread with the collected stories of Bonnie Mace.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | July 28, 2024 5:53 AM |
[quote]Shinjuku Baby?
Yes! Someone dig up the thread where he posted a shirtless pic of himself! I was shocked by how hot he was.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | July 28, 2024 8:16 AM |
Dustin (Dewind) you're divorced!
I am sorry of course and all that jazz. But call me sometime!
by Anonymous | reply 195 | July 28, 2024 8:44 AM |